Buildbot vs Visual Studio App Center: What are the differences?
What is Buildbot? Python-based continuous integration testing framework. BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. By automatically rebuilding and testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are pinpointed quickly, before other developers are inconvenienced by the failure.
What is Visual Studio App Center? Continuous everything – Build, Tes, Deploy, Engage, Repeat. Automate the lifecycle of your iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS apps. Connect your repo and within minutes build in the cloud, test on thousands of real devices, distribute to beta testers and app stores, and monitor real-world usage with crash and analytics data. All in one place.
Buildbot and Visual Studio App Center can be primarily classified as "Continuous Integration" tools.
Some of the features offered by Buildbot are:
- run builds on a variety of slave platforms
- arbitrary build process: handles projects using C, Python, whatever
- minimal host requirements: Python and Twisted
On the other hand, Visual Studio App Center provides the following key features:
Buildbot is an open source tool with 4.04K GitHub stars and 1.39K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Buildbot's open source repository on GitHub.
Mozilla, Animoto, and Fetch Robotics are some of the popular companies that use Buildbot, whereas Visual Studio App Center is used by Partipost, Lykon GmbH, and BeachBody. Buildbot has a broader approval, being mentioned in 10 company stacks & 32 developers stacks; compared to Visual Studio App Center, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
